This vintage postcard features a pretty young woman picking flowers. She is also carrying a basket of flowers. The caption on the bottom of the card states “Mignon”. The translation of this word is “cute” and “nice”. This postcard has an Italian stamp and was postmarked in Dumenza, Italy. The card dates back to the 1910’s. (S0LD)
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with the look on her face, think she’d do better picking Lavendar
Mignon is a character from a novel by Goethe. There were numerous German postcard series with this motif.